Organized Classroom

JUNE 11, 2025

Engaging students in fundraising activities can be a rewarding experience for both educators and young learners. By involving elementary students in fundraising, educators can create a positive impact on their development while contributing to meaningful causes. .” Check out Teacher Life Balance Academy HERE !

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Additionally, research shows that students who participate in hybrid learning tend to retain information better, as they actively engage with content rather than passively receiving it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

In February, the Washington Post reported that NSF staff were told to comb through active research grants for keywords like “cultural relevance,” “diverse backgrounds” and “women” to see if they violated Trump’s executive orders. It’s still unclear exactly how the Trump administration determined which grants to terminate.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 2, 2025

Equivalent Fractions Kite Projected Time: 30-60 minutes Math Concepts: Fractions Additional Materials: Scissors, glue, tape, colored pencils/markers Get your elementary learners to recognize equivalent fractions easily with a craft. It’s also a fun or end-of-unit activity. It’s perfect for a no-prep sub activity.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

"(L)earning is the human activity which least needs manipulation by others. His best known work, Deschooling Society , published in 1971 is a no holds barred critique of institutionalized, compulsory schooling, arguing that the overall effect is to alienate most children from their own learning. for their own good."

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Jodi Durgin

JULY 6, 2025

Patrick’s Day in your elementary classroom? Patrick’s Day Writing Prompts Lap book Activity guides students through learning facts all about St. Patrick’s Day resource includes a variety of themed prompts, graphic organizers, vocabulary activities, and more. GET THE ACTIVITIES GET THE ACTIVITIES Why Students Love this St.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2022

One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has organized the basics on how to teach Venn Diagrams to elementary-age students: What is a Venn Diagram. How to make it clear to elementary students (get crafty). How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students. This also works as a great group activity. Get Crafty.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

When visiting a classroom last year to lead a lesson on multimedia creations for a group of elementary school students, we tackled this issue together. The Activity Teachers can model this process by thinking aloud after conducting a search. A good place to start is by modeling good search behavior.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Unfortunately, it’s rare to see students engage in play at school after they’ve left elementary school, but secondary students need this time too. Not every child enjoys the same type of creative activity, so the various stations allow them to select a creative task that appeals to his/her interests.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Traditionally, the spotlight on STEM education appears to occur in high school and late middle school grade-levels. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development. STEM education encourages children to inquire, observe, and seek solutions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Maria Konnikova doesn’t buy the "10,000 hour rule"—that theory popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that it takes at least 10,000 hours of serious practice to become a world-class expert at an activity. She believes she’s found a way to short-circuit it, and it involves marshmallows and poker.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Key points: Interactivity and engaging resources can make science more approachable Elementary school teachers need easy-to-use science tools that will grab students’ attention During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Tuesday, June 7, 2022) —Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District (SVCSD) today announced it is broadening its partnership with Discovery Education to support science education in elementary school classrooms districtwide. Available with the Science?Techbooks?are

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

Charlotte, NC — When elementary school teachers and students across Kentucky’s Johnson County School District (JCSD) return to their classrooms this Fall, they will find new resources in their high-tech toolkits thanks to an expanded partnership with Discovery Education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

World Math Day provides opportunities and fun activities for students to engage with math and grow their confidence. Notre Dame Elementary School, Grade 1 William D., Episcopal School of Dallas-Lower Campus, Grade 2 Juliana J., Dunstan Catholic School, Grade 3 Alex H., Heritage Elementary School, Grade 4 Gian P.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. Learning and physical activity also work well because of the fun factor. Its all about learning through physical activity. Teachers loved it.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

These are the challenges Quinlan O’Grady faces each day as a teacher at Schmid Elementary School. Promoting active learning. O’Grady began using Adventure2Learning’s instructional videos a few years ago as a way to promote active learning in her classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The following selection of no-cost digital resources created with social impact partners connect families to engaging learning experiences: Inspire the next generation of solution seekers with STEM and math-specific family activities from the STEM Careers Coalition. The contest is open through June 17, 2022.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

“By opening up our playbook online through SparkPlay, we hope to inspire adults everywhere – teachers, after school staff, families – to help kids build relationships and important life skills by playing.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This approach allows shy students to participate actively without the pressures of face-to-face interactions. Tailoring lessons to students’ strengths and interests can boost their confidence and motivation to participate more actively.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

CodeHS, a leading platform for K-12 computer science education, has launched a curriculum for elementary schools to fit seamlessly into a K-12 computer science pathway. With ready-to-go lessons, CodeHS makes teaching computer science simple even for elementary teachers who have never taught computer science before.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2015

The other day I was working with a group of elementary school teachers on lesson planning with technology. So, we began our technology integration process by envisioning learning activities that would demonstrate student mastery of curriculum content. The real challenge is not integrating technology effectively.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2020

Elementary School. Middle School. High School. MackinVIA and free eBook activation require a Mackin.com account. They have compiled free content, helpful videos, links, downloadable resources and more to help you with this distance learning transition. 4,500+ Multi-User eBooks. 3,000+ Multi-User eBooks.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The kit also came with a Tinker Zine booklet with additional science experiments and activities. . One of the first videos she found was titled “10 Science Projects for Elementary School Students,” which demonstrates a simple experiment and explains what is happening.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We formed a committee of stakeholders that included district administrators, site principals, classroom teachers, and other individuals focused on creating more “active” learning spaces. Based on specific grade levels, those kits of parts were designed to support active learning and engagement in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2017

When Micah Watson, an 8-year-old with autism, came home with bruises, his parents suspected their son had been mistreated in a closet-sized “calm room” at Plano ISD’s Miller Elementary School. Once students realized that the cameras were active, they were a strong deterrent.” Let me out now!” .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

We sat down and decided that those would be the first schools to get the upgraded media centers, and we’d tackle the high schools next (the elementary schools would be last because we needed to secure some supplemental funding before we could actually finish those).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Yet, at the elementary school level, many teachers haven’t had any specialized education or training in science, leaving them at a loss for PD in STEM. Instead, we conduct PD within a constructivist framework to actively engage and challenge teachers to think at higher levels. Take a constructivist approach.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For nearly three decades, I used purposeful play in my classroom and have seen firsthand the impact it has on both students and teachers,” said Alicia Miller, a retired elementary school teacher from Evans, GA.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

was first spoken during the height of gang wars in Los Angeles, when I was a new speech language pathologist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More than 30 years later, I now work at a 700-student elementary school in Washington state and I have a caseload of 50 students consisting of varying disabilities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

We have a fiber network connecting our 13 schools. We have a one-to-one initiative in our high schools, and we’re looking to extend that opportunity to our middle and elementary schools as well. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2023

The district reports 70 screens are live today with Carousel digital signage content coming from multiple contributors per school, with approximately 150 screens expected upon completion. Whitt points to the differences between how the J Everett Light Career Center and elementary schools use the system.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2018

The mentoring program gives students a chance to participate in community activities, engage in conversation with students in different grades, and demonstrate their SEL learning overall. O’Tasha Morgan’s district, students started to take on leadership roles and achieve more after the district implemented a mentoring program.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Although even the youngest children are considered tech-savvy today, there exists a difference between a child who knows how to use a tablet to watch videos and a child who knows how to navigate a device for active learning. The thought of giving 30 kindergarten students their own Chromebooks might be daunting.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Ryan Johnson, former instructional technology coordinator, Enterprise (CA) Elementary School District. I believe in student-led formative assessment tools and, to that end, my go-to tech tools are ActivEd Walkabouts and Seesaw. Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready has been a wonderful tool to help us build data-driven classrooms.

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